Welcome to Class Dulas

Welcome to Class Dulas page.
Our class teacher is Mrs Sophie Jones and the teaching assistants are Mrs Judith Humphreys, Mrs Teresa Marsh and Mrs Kerry Cole.

Reception 

The children have had a fantastic transition into school. They have adapted to their surroundings with ease and excitement and I look forward to building our relationships further.

This half term the children will be busy learning all about Ourselves. This will be through play whilst the adults are playing alongside, observing and providing resources to enhance and extend their play, as well as adult led input to whole class and small groups.

The children will bring home their wordless reading books, please try to support your child by hearing them ‘read’ at home as much as you can. Don’t forget to fill in their diaries, I love to hear how proud you are of their progress.

WOW sheets – I truly love to hear all about the amazing things you do at home, the children get a great sense of pride when we share these with the class and display them on our WOW board.

Mrs Jones is happy to speak to parents or guardians after school, or if easier please either email or call.

PE is on Wednesday and Friday. Please can children wear their PE kit on this day.

Forest School will start after the children have settled in, you will receive details of this in a few weeks. The children will need a long-sleeved top, long trousers, wellies and waterproof coat. We will get muddy so please send old clothes.

The teachers and assistant in Reception continue to watch and interact with the children every day to see what they are interested in and what they are good at. Then they plan a range of really exciting indoor and outdoor activities for the children following the Early Years Foundation Stage guidance. This has seven areas of learning:

Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

We are promoting positive attitudes through the use of circle time and puppets. We are focusing on forming positive relationships with both peers and adults and we try to be really kind and considerate to each other. We provide opportunities to help build children’s self-confidence and self-awareness. We work on building the children’s ability to self-regulate by being aware of their own and others feelings and emotions, managing self by being confident to try new activities and show independence and resilience and building relationships.

How can I help at home?

Talk to your child about what they are good at and what they would like to get better at. Support children by practising skills at home.

Communication and Language.

We encourage the children to listen carefully in a range of situations; such as story time, circle time and listening to instructions. We model how to speak clearly and confidently and how to take turns in conversations. Each day the children join in with Concept Cat from the word aware programme introducing them to new vocabulary. We will be focusing on talking in a familiar group, rhyming and alliteration. The children will have opportunity for role play and seeing unfamiliar items that may spark curiosity, questioning and discussions.

How can I help at home?

Talk about their families at home.

Look at family themed books. We have lots of books in school and a lending library in the village if you would like some to borrow.

Physical Development

We are supporting the children as they develop their gross and fine motor skills. This is through the use of large equipment such as the climbing frame, bikes and balls and smaller equipment such as peg boards, threading, play dough and mark making tools. We are focusing on holding a pen or pencil and use it to write recognisable letters. We will be using scissors, paintbrushes, pens, hammers and bricks. The children are working on their finger muscles and join in with daily dough disco as well as other funky finger exercises. This term we will be looking at how to keep our bodies healthy and the impact that exercise has on our bodies.

Our PE sessions are on Wednesday and Friday, this term will be working on gross motor skills.

How can I help at home?

Encourage children to be active at home, whether it is a sport, a bike ride or just a walk.

Literacy

We will explore a variety of fiction, non-fiction, songs and poetry texts. This term we will be focusing on Phase 1 phonics and introducing Phase 2. We will be making meaning of the marks we make and celebrating a love of reading. Our main texts this half term are The Naughty Bus and Cave Baby.

How can I help at home?

Share stories and read bed time stories especially.

Maths

This half term we will be looking at numbers to 5, introducing the wholeness of each number and how they can be represented in different ways including addition and subtraction. We will be matching, sorting and comparing, looking at patterns and recognising some 2d shapes.

How can I help at home? Go on shape hunts in the environment at home and outdoors. Talk about amounts when cooking. See if you can find numerals in the environment.

Understanding the World.

This half term we will be focusing on learning about Ourselves. Exploring what makes us the same and what makes us different, looking at our own families and others around us. Learning about our local environment and how it may differ to others. We look at different beliefs and celebrations, different occupations and show care and concern for living animals.

We will be having Forest School Sessions. The children will need full Forest School kit which consists of a long-sleeved top, long trousers, waterproof jacket and wellies. Children can get very dirty, so please send old clothes.

How can I help at home?

Go for a local walk and talk about where our homes are, is it a house or a bungalow? Do you walk or drive to school?

Expressive Arts and Design

This half term we will learn songs, mix colours, act out stories and play musical instruments. We will be exposed to a variety of mediums for drawing and painting and build on previous skills. We will be focusing on art and design both adult taught skills and child-initiated creations.

How can I help at home?

Listen to wide range of music and talk about the similarities and differences in music.

Year 1

Maths

In maths this term we will continue to follow Whiterose maths scheme working on place value within 10, addition and subtraction and geometry.

English 

This term we are looking at a range of texts Naughy Bus by Jan and Jerry Oke, Cave Baby by Julia Donaldosn and Emily Gravett, Look Up! by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola and Astro Girl by Ken Wilson-Max. We will be creating our own adventure stories, narrative retellings, non-chronological reports and fact files about being astronauts.

Art

We will be developing are skills and knowledge across four key areas; Drawing, Painting and mixed media, Sculpture and 3D and Craft and design. This term we will be looking at the work of artist Bridget Riley and Zaria Forman. Exploring mark makinh and line; working and experimenting with different materials through observational and collaborative pieces.

Science

Our unit this term is Forces and space; Seasonal changes. Looking at how seasonal changes affect trees, weather patterns and daylight hours. We will be recording temperatures and using pictograms to work scientifically.

History

Our topic for this term is How am I making History? We will be looking at personal chronology and finding out about the past within living memory. By examining photographs and asking visitors about their childhood in the past and we will be making time capsules.

Geography

In Geography we this term we will be looking at the question “What is it like here?” We will be locating where we live on aerial photographs and recognising features within a local context. Creating maps of our school. We will be involved in fieldwork on the school grounds.

PSHE

Autumn 1 – Being Me in My World

• Understanding feelings and the feelings of others

• Being part of a class team

• Rights and responsibilities

• Rewards and consequences

• Creating a safe and fair learning environment

• Valuing self and others

Autumn 2 – Celebrating Difference

• Similarities and differences

• Understanding bullying and how to deal with it

• Making new friends

• Celebrating what makes us special

Computing

We will be looking at skills including; knowing how to log in and navigate around a computer, developing mouse skills, learning how to drag, drop click and control cursors and creating art.

Music

Our unit is Keeping the pulse which includes

• Clap the rhythm of their name in time to the pulse.
• Sway or tap in time to the pulse.
• Sing a rhythm in time with the pulse.
• Copy rhythms based on word patterns using an instrument.
• Keep the pulse while playing a rhythm on an instrument.
• Follow instructions during a performance

Mrs S Jones